Is a 300 litre trolley actually enough for a medium-sized laundry operation or are we kidding ourselves?

Can anyone with real experience running a commercial laundry or linen management operation tell me honestly whether a 300 litre logistics trolley gives you enough working capacity for a medium-volume setup, or whether that size sounds reasonable on paper but turns out to be frustratingly limiting once you're actually running a full day's worth of collections and deliveries and constantly having to make more trips than you'd like because you've filled it up faster than expected? We're in the early stages of setting up a small commercial laundry service that will handle linen for a handful of hotel clients in the Abu Dhabi area, and one of the things I keep going back and forth on is the trolley capacity question because getting it wrong in either direction creates real operational problems, too small and you're making unnecessary extra trips that eat into the time and labor efficiency that makes the whole business model work, too large and you end up with equipment that's physically difficult to maneuver in the kinds of service corridors and loading areas that hotels typically have which aren't always as spacious as you might hope. I've been doing a lot of research on this and came across a 300 litre logistics trolley option while looking at what different suppliers offer in this capacity range, and the dimensions and load ratings looked promising for what we're trying to do, but I genuinely can't find much honest firsthand feedback from people who use this size in a real hospitality linen context rather than in a general warehouse or retail setting where the usage patterns and space constraints are quite different. The other thing I'm trying to figure out is whether the capacity rating reflects the practical usable volume for something like bundled linen, which doesn't pack as efficiently as boxes and tends to take up more space relative to its weight, or whether that rating assumes a denser type of load that would mean we'd effectively have less usable capacity than the number suggests when we're filling it with the kind of bulky soft goods we'll actually be collecting. We're planning to start with three trolleys and scale up as the client base grows, so getting the size right from the beginning matters more than it might if we were just buying one to try and could easily adjust, and the cost difference between buying correctly now and having to replace everything in six months because we underestimated what we needed is significant enough that I'd rather spend more time on this decision upfront than learn the hard way that we got it wrong. Would anyone who runs a similar operation or has experience with this specific capacity range be willing to share what their actual daily usage looks like in terms of how many loads a single trolley handles and whether you find yourself wishing you had more capacity or whether the 300 litre range turns out to be a practical sweet spot for the kind of work we're planning to do?
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